Tag: business

Britain, the United States, Japan and Canada will ban new imports of Russian gold as part of efforts to tighten the sanctions squeeze on Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine, the British government said ... ( read original story ...)

Less than 3 percent of Japanese companies operating in Russia have decided to withdraw following its invasion of Ukraine, the lowest ... ( read original story ...)

The pace of economic growth accelerated in Japan at the end of the second quarter according to the latest business surveys. Read more here. ( read original story ...)

A city in eastern Japan logged the country's highest temperature for a June day on Saturday, breaking above 40 Celsius, the weather bureau said. ( read original story ...)

Inc is in final talks to acquire 10% of online financial giant SBI Holdings Inc in a deal likely worth over 60 billion yen ($443 million), the Nikkei business daily reported on Tuesday. ( read original story ...)

AM Best has revised its outlook on Japan’s life insurance market segment to stable from negative, as overall business conditions for the life insurers have improved compared to earlier stages of the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's factory output probably fell in May for a second successive month due to supply chain disruptions caused by strict COVID-19 lockdowns in China, a Reuters poll showed on Friday. TOKYO, June 24 ... ( read original story ...)

A western Japan venture company is offering free sanitary napkins via dispensers installed inside women's individual restroom stalls at comme ... ( read original story ...)

Recent trials of allowing cheering at soccer games are indicative of the approach toward large events in the coming months: a slow, highly cautious return to some aspects of normalcy. ( read original story ...)

Toyota has been very slow to develop electric vehicles and hasn't offered a mass-market, lithium-ion-battery vehicle until this year in the form of the joint-Subaru-developed Toyota BZ4X electric ... ( read original story ...)

Until around 30 years ago, this was its main business. Since then, Kaiho has expanded into exports of auto parts, after a Kuwaiti businessperson visited Japan and bought a large number of used ... ( read original story ...)

To leave Germany without some kind of cooperation pact on currency moves—or at a minimum, rules-of-the-road for the rest of 2022—would remind world markets why they’ve come to ignore the G-7. ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka and LeBron James have received backlash over the name of their new media company, Hana Kuma. The two sports stars announced this week they had joined forces to work on the new venture, ... ( read original story ...)

Watch "Walz welcomes Japanese business leaders", a video on CBSNews.com. View more videos and watch CBS News, a live news stream featuring original CBS News reporting. ( read original story ...)

The Osaka District Court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit claiming Seven-Eleven Japan Co. unjustly terminated its contract with a con ... ( read original story ...)

Chizuko Kojima, who has died at 106, built the superstore chain Aeon Co. alongside her younger brother. ( read original story ...)